Analysis: 106 counties crucial in race for 270 electoral votes

11:08 AM,
Oct. 21, 2012

Written by

THOMAS BEAUMONT
and MIKE SCHNEIDER

LEESBURG, Va. - How Virginia goes in the presidential election may come down to voters who live amid the small wineries, affluent subdivisions and Civil War battlegrounds of Loudon County.

Voters in the tony Hamilton County suburbs around the humming riverside economic engine of Cincinnati may tip the balance in Ohio.

To win Florida, either President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney probably will have carried Hillsborough County, where the urban seaport town of Tampa bleeds into communities of Spanish-speaking voters and retired Midwesterners. ...